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- Title
Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez, de Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora: aproximaciones a una geografía poscolonial.
- Authors
Zinni, Mariana
- Abstract
Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez can be read as a mimetic exercise related to some core problems regarding the dynamics of colonial domination. Such exercise not only mimes-imitates textual aspects of other genres by reshaping the process of text constitution itself (picaresque novel, travelogue), but also inscribes itself in the relationships between colonized and colonizers. I propose a reading of this text by arguing that Sigüen-za y Góngora, while re-presenting the colony vis-à-vis the metropolis, situates Mexico City in a cultural circuit and proposes a movement of "metropolization" of the colonial city regarding the other periphery, the Philippines. Consequently, Sigüenza will descenter the empire by establishing the existence of this other suburb in a clever stroke of which I will propose to call "postcolonial geography".
- Subjects
MEXICO; INFORTUNIOS de Alonso Ramirez (Book); DE Siguenza y Gongora, Carlos, 1645-1700; MEXICAN literature; COLONIAL Latin American literature; POSTCOLONIAL analysis; GEOGRAPHY in literature
- Publication
IBEROAMERICANA. América Latina - España - Portugal, 2012, Vol 12, Issue 46, p57
- ISSN
1577-3388
- Publication type
Literary Criticism